What do you eat on the bike?

I am just wondering what you eat during a long ride or race??

I tend to have power bar cookies and cream on long runs with short ones fuelled by jelly beans and wine gums :) anyone have any really strange preferences?
It has to be some sort of cake at the mid ride cafe stop, that and a hot chocolate!

Bouncy.

flies

Jamaican Ginger Cake.

50/14 for the win.

seriously though, bananas. And Starbars.

Roughly speaking my habits are thus.

<65mi usually nothing.
65-100mi a few mule bars.
100-160mi as much as I can cram into my mouth of whatever I can find!

Foie Gras

Jamaican Ginger Cake.

50/14 for the win.

I didn't realise that was a fiddy thing. Remember I gave you a ginger cake in Cumbria? Good stuff. Often 2 for £1 in Iceland...

Soreen malt loaf is amazing for warding off the dreaded bonk too.

Cliff Bars, peanut butter and honey mini sarnies, nanas and ginger cake at the tea stop. Shot blocks too.

Greedy

Soft cheese & grapes

That you did, malt cake too.

kendal mint cake as well is a great option.

Your mum

Kendal Mint cake is fucking gross!

flies

I know an old woman who swallowed a fly...

... she had a serious mental illness and ate herself to death in a grotesque way.

Cupcakes.

I'm partial to a battenberg cake although that is a sugar hit more than anything. Great pick me up for that horrible 3am lull on a night ride.

Snickers bars and wine gums, too. But mainly cupcakes.

nothing during the ride. nothing before. gorge myself afterwards. Its the alexander technique

Malt loaf.

Riding anything more than 50 miles is every excuse I need to gorge on fatty sugary foods before, during and indeed after.

agree with above posts re malt loaf, its ace but i spread butter on each slice, and also bananas and i am especially partial to the toffee coated flapjakcs....drool.

oh yes and lager, not sure this is particularly performance enhancing but psycologically its just the ticket :)

Lobster, washed down with Armagnac on the climbs, ice cream on the descent.

Or, if commuting, gravalax on rye

guinness